Windows Networking - Dial-up vs Wifi/LAN priority

Under windows XP, a telecom t-stick wireless adapter shows as a dial-
up device, and the wifi and LAN connectors show in the 'LAN/high
speed' list. Because of this I can't see any way to set the priority
of the LAN and wifi connectors above the dial-up t-stick.

I want the priority to be wired LAN first, then Wifi then dial-up (t-
stick) for reasons of performance, cost and data cap.

Unfortunately Windows wants to use the t-stick first if available -
the worst option!

Anyone know how to get around this? Googling shows the same question
but no workable answers so far.

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On Apr 6, 9:07 am, JohnO <> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Under windows XP, a telecom t-stick wireless adapter shows as a dial-
> up device, and the wifi and LAN connectors show in the 'LAN/high
> speed' list. Because of this I can't see any way to set the priority
> of the LAN and wifi connectors above the dial-up t-stick.
>
> I want the priority to be wired LAN first, then Wifi then dial-up (t-
> stick) for reasons of performance, cost and data cap.
>
> Unfortunately Windows wants to use the t-stick first if available -
> the worst option!
>
> Anyone know how to get around this? Googling shows the same question
> but no workable answers so far.
>
> Cheers
> JohnO

Hmmm, looks like I can change the interface metric with ROUTE CHANGE
command.

If I change the dial-up metric from 1 to 22 to be above the LAN
adapter (and also change the LAN adapter to metric 1 it stops working
all together, and it also seems to revert the dial-up adapter to it's
original settings next time it is connected....

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